Climate Change

Polar bears are often the poster children for the impacts of climate change because of how much they rely on the ice for survival. Less ice forces these powerful predators to swim further to find food or spend more time on land living off fat reserves. Many polar bear populations…

A 2021 flood in Westport left more than 100 homes uninhabitable Photo: RNZ / Anan Zaki A major insurance company has temporarily stopped offering new home insurance policies in Westport because of the town's flood risk. A climate change policy expert says AA Insurance's decision will be the first of…

A court on Wednesday ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire from the devastating effects of climate change – a sweeping victory for the islanders. The Hague District Court, in a stunning rebuke of Dutch authorities, also ruled…

As climate change leads to record rainfalls, the city’s 120-year-old subway system is more vulnerable to flooding than ever. A flooded floor is blocked off in the 42nd Street Times Square subway station during a rain storm in New York. (Jeenah Moon / Getty) Only two months before Zohran Mamdani…

With an icy white sheet still blanketing much of the Eastern United States after an intense storm this week, it’s hard to imagine a future with less snow at this time of year.  But over time, climate change has decreased snowpack by as much as 20 percent per decade in…

Forest minister Ganesh Ram Singhkhuntia speaks at the DFO conference in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday Bhubaneswar: Forest minister Ganesh Ram Singhkhuntia on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the increasing incidents of forest fires in the state over the past few years. Speaking at the DFOs conference he asked forest officials in…

Solar geoengineering could save the ice sheets – but stopping it could be catastrophic Martin Zwick/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Solar geoengineering could be even more costly than unabated global warming if it is cut off suddenly, leading to a “termination shock” of rapidly rebounding temperatures. As the rate…

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This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. “Observing Greenland from a helicopter,” one scientist wrote last year, “the main problem is one of comprehending scale. I thought we were skimming low over the waves of a fjord, before ……

Mohamed El‑Sebaei, former deputy head of the Senate’s Agriculture and Irrigation Committee, said updating Egypt’s Agriculture Law is no longer optional but an urgent necessity imposed by current challenges. Speaking during a workshop reviewing the legislative impact assessment of Agriculture Law No. 53 of 1966 and its amendments, El-Sebaei said…